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I need help to change my search engine on the adress bar. The problem is : When i write a word to adress bar to search on web my mozilla firefox 4.0 browser finds it with ' Open Dns ' .. How can i change it to google or any other adress ??

I need help to change my search engine on the adress bar. The problem is : When i write a word to adress bar to search on web my mozilla firefox 4.0 browser finds it with ' Open Dns ' .. How can i change it to google or any other adress ??

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If you are redirected to an Open DNS website then that means that you are using the Open DNS servers. Those servers do that by default if a DNS lookup fails and you will have to change to other DNS server if you want to change that behavior.

See http://kb.mozillazine.org/Error_loading_websites#DNS